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J. B. HIGGINS.

BUCKLE.

No. 303,515. Patented Aug. 12, 1884.

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JOHN B. HIGGINS, on BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,515, dated August 12, 1884.

Application filed November 12, 1883.

' To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN B. HIGGINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles; and I do hereby declare that the same are fully described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in buckles; and it consists in an ordinary buckle-frame formed with a tongue-bar at or near the center of the frame, and a loop extended below the top of the buckle-frame between the tongue-bar and the rear cross-bar of the buckle-frame, said ton guebar being in the same plane as the side bars of the buckle-frame, and provided with a tongue having an abrupt bend, so as to oppose a movement of the strap forward or backward, as will be hereinafter described and shown.

On the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents-a perspective View of my improved buckle, and Fig. 2 represents a central longitudinal section of the buckle and the strap secured to it.

Similar letters refer to similar parts when ever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

a to represent a buckle-frame in the ordinary manner, provided with the brace 12, to which is hinged one or more bent tongues, c. To the under side of the frame a a is secured or made in one piece therewith the guide-brace (Z, through which the strap 0 is guided after it has been put over the bent tongue 0, for which purpose a hole is made through the end of the.

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forward or backward. By the employmentframe, and, further, in the peculiar construe tion of the buckle-tongue, so that the latter extends downward from the tonguebrace approximately at right angles thereto, and thence bends abruptly upward to bear on the front cross-bar of the buckle-frame, so that in passing through .the strap such downward extension will oppose any movement of the strap forward or backward, which is important, the abrupt bend being as near the tongue-brace as practicable, in order that a large space inter venes between the point of the tongue and the bend, so that the hole in the strap need not be at the extreme end.

Having thus fully described the nature, construction, and operation of my invention, I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim As an improved article of manufacture, a buckle composed of the buckle-frame, formed with a tongue-bar, b, and the loop d, extended below the top of the buckle-frame between said tongue-bar andv the rear cross-bar of the buckle-frame, said tongue-bar being in the same plane as the side bars of the buckle, and provided with the tongue '0, formed, substantially as shown, with the abrupt bend, so as to oppose a movement of the strap forward or backward, substantially as set forth.

In'testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN B. HIGGINS.

WVi tnesses:

ALBAN ANDRI'JN, HENRY GHAnnoURN. 

